The Luka Doncic Interview (Part 1)

Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Mind the Game with LeBron James and Steve Nash is honored to welcome in, brand new member of the Los Angeles Lakers, Luka Doncic. In part 1 of our episode with Luka, we talk to him about his transition from the Dallas Mavericks to the Lakers and playing with his childhood idol, LeBron James. We also dig into how he fell in love with basketball in Slovenia and moving to Spain to play for Real Madrid. Finally, we do a deep dive on a topic that is near and dear to our hearts, youth basketball. Luka has commissioned a study called ‘Inside Youth Basketball’ through his the Luka Doncic Foundation that studies the impact of youth basketball in Europe and the United State. This is an amazing conversation with part 2 dropping soon so be sure to follow and subscribe to Mind the Game wherever you consume your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Mind the game.
0:01.0	Man.
0:02.0	We're back.
0:03.0	Stutted cast today.
0:04.0	Good, brother.
0:05.0	We're happy to welcome the great look of Donchitz.
0:08.0	Thank you.
0:09.0	What a pleasure?
0:10.0	A big time pleasure.
0:11.0	Had a Don on to speak about multiple topics.
0:14.0	Multiple topics, the most important, I think, is everyone wants to know, like, what's your take on the season finale of White Lotus?
0:23.6	What was that? What you said? I didn't even say.
0:26.9	I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Never mind. Never mind. Welcome to Mind the Game, presented by Uninterrupted and Wondry.
0:48.7	In this episode, we're thrilled to be joined by Luca Donchich.
0:52.1	We cover a bunch of topics, starting with his move to Los Angeles,
0:56.1	playing with one of his idols, LeBron James, and also his work with the Luca Donchich Foundation
1:01.6	and the commissioned study he's provided of developing youth basketball players in Europe versus
1:07.9	the United States. Stick around to the end of the episode where I'll talk a little bit more
1:12.2	about why I'm on Luca's Athletes Council,
1:15.3	why it's important to me,
1:16.9	and how we can all help
1:18.2	improve the landscape of youth basketball.
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